Stefano Canali CV

Stefano Canali Curriculum Vitae

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10/March/1991, Milan (Italy) B stefanocanali@me.com uni-hannover.academia.edu/StefanoCanali

Areas of Specialisation Philosophy of data-intensive science; Data studies.

Areas of Competence Philosophy of Medicine; Philosophy of the Life Sciences; Philosophy of Information.

Current Position Since PhD Candidate at the “Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific February Research” Graduate Research Group.

2016 Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Dissertation: “The Role of Data and Technology in Contemporary Biomedicine: Integrating Data to Study the Relation Between Disease and the Environment”.

Supervisors: Thomas Reydon (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

— September-October 2016: visiting PhD student at the Data Science group at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter.

Education 2014–2015 MSc Science, Technology and Society.

Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London.

Dissertation: “Big Data, Epistemology and Causality: Knowledge In and Knowledge Out in EXPOsOMICS”.

Supervisor: Phyllis Illari.

2011–2014 BA Philosophy.

Department of Philosophy, University of Milan.

Dissertation: “Towards an Infrastructural Perspective on Technology”.

Supervisors: Giulio Giorello, Luca Guzzardi.

Published Work Peer-reviewed Canali, S. (in press). “Evaluating Evidential Pluralism in Epidemiology: Mechanistic papers Evidence in Exposome Research”. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.

Canali, S. (2016).

“Big Data, epistemology and causality: Knowledge in and knowledge out in EXPOsOMICS”. Big Data & Society, 3(2), (doi.org/10.1177/2053951716669530).

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Book reviews Canali, S. (2015). Book review of Come comprendiamo le parole. Introduzione alla semantica lessicale by Claudio Faschilli, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 6(2), 71-75 (link).

Canali, S. (2014). Book review of Le tribolazioni del filosofare. Comedia metaphysica, ne la quale si tratta de li errori e de le pene de l’Infero by Achille C. Varzi and Claudio Calosi, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 5(2), 96-100 (link).

Canali, S. (2013). Book review of La Rivoluzione dell’Informazione by Luciano Floridi, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 4(1), 61-65 (link).

Interviews Canali, S. (2016). “Philosophy of Science Today. An Interview with Federica Russo”, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 7(1), 13-20 (link).

Canali, S. (2015). “EXPOsOMICs from a Big Data perspective: Interview with Professor Paolo Vineis”, EXPOsOMICS website (link).

Berio, L. and Canali, S. (2014). Interview with Matteo Mameli (King’s College London), Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 5(1), 1-3 (link).

Conference Canali, S. (2015). “Seventh Workshop on the Philosophy of Information. Concepreports tual Challenges of Data in Science and Technology”, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 6(1), 64-86 (link).

Canali, S. (2013). “Pragmatic Representations Versus Motor Representations (Versus Intentions)” by Bance Nanay, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 4(2), 48-51 (link).

Editorials Canali, S and Casati, P. (2017). “Editorial Letter”, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 8(2), 1-2, (link).

Berio, L. and Canali, S. (2015). “Leading Article”, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 6(2), i-ii, (link).

Canali, S. and Cozzi, M. (2013). “Outsourcing”, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica – Junior, 4(2), i-ii (link).

Presentations 2 November (poster) Epidemiology at the Interface of Environment and Health: Three 2018 Strategies for Evidential Claims on the Exposome.

50th biennal meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, PSA2018 (webpage).

30 October (invited) My Idea of Healthy People is....

2018 Healthy People: How the Medical Humanities and the Health Sciences Study the Complexity of Health, Lorentz Center (webpage).

11 September Exposome Research in Epidemiology: Interdisciplinarity in Action.

2018 Fifth European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences: Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences and their Philosophy, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (webpage).

2 July 2018 Molecular Data and Shifting Notions in Epidemiology.

Talk in an organised symposium on “Data Practices in Personalized and Precision Medicine: How Big Data Microscopes Reconfigure Health and Disease” at the 7th biennal conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), Ghent University (webpage).

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7 June 2018 Molecular Data and Shifting Notions in Epidemiology.

Philosophy of Medicine Meets Social Epistemology, Leibniz Universität Hannover (webpage).

15 May 2018 (popular audience talk) Data and Big Data in Science.

Project week organised by students association of the Hannover Medical School (MHH) (webpage).

26 October Heterogeneity in Epidemiology: Data, Evidence and Integration.

2017 Talk in organised workshop Making Sense of Data in the Sciences: Philosophical Perspectives on the Methodology, Epistemology and Practices of Data-Intensive Science, Leibniz Universität Hannover (webpage).

20 July 2017 Integrating data in Molecular Epidemiology: The case of exposome research.

Talk in an organised symposium on “Challenges and Opportunities of Data Integration” at the 2017 Meeting of the International Society For The History, Philosophy And Social Studies Of Biology (Ishpssb), University of São Paulo (webpage).

23 June 2017 Methodological Novelties and Causal Inference in Epidemiology.

Big Data in the Social Sciences, University of Kent (webpage).

21 June 2017 Methodological Novelties and Causal Inference in Epidemiology.

Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Bologna (webpage).

8 November (popular audience talk) What is This Thing Called Big Data?.

2016 Science Slam organised by the international office of Leibniz Project week organised by Leibniz Universität Hannover.

7 September Comment to Arantza Etxeberria’s “On the Biological Organization of 2016 Pathologies: Functions, Relations and the ‘Normal–Broken’ View”.

Fourth European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences: Function and Malfunction in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and the Social Sciences, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (webpage).

2 September Is Data Exploration Exploratory Experimentation? Making Sense of Data 2016 Exploration in Big Data Research.

Second London Philosophy of Science Graduate Conference, University College London (webpage).

14 June 2016 Making Big Data Useful in Biomedical Sciences: the Need for a Serious and Pluralistic Methodology.

Eighth Workshop on the Philosophy of Information: “The role of data in biomedical sciences”, University of Ferrara (webpage).

22 April 2016 The Role of Technology Today and the Value of Philosophical Questions.

OZSW Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy: “How Philosophy Meets the World”, University of Twente (webpage).

10 December Models and Data Curation.

2015 International Conference on Modelling and Representation: “How to make world(s) with symbols”, University of the Basque Country (webpage).

4 June 2015 Big Data and Causality.

Our Digital Society, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (webpage).

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12 June 2014 Connected Life = Disclosed Life: privacy and the right to be forgotten (with Luciano Floridi).

Connected Life, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (webpage).

Event Organisation 26-27 June Ninth Workshop on the Philosophy of Information (with Patrick Allo).

2018 Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts, Brussels - designed topic, call for papers and programme - secured funding - webpage: socphilinfo.github.io/workshops/wpi9/

Since January Reading group in the philosophy of scientific practice (with Simon Lohse 2018 and David Hopf).

Leibniz Universität Hannover - reading group on philosophy of science in practice, with a particular focus on the life and social sciences - webpage: HannoverPSP.wordpress.com

26-27 Making Sense of Data in the Sciences: Philosophical Perspectives on the October 2017 Methodology, Epistemology and Practices of Data-Intensive Science (with Mathias Frisch and Thomas Reydon).

Dr.Buhmann Schule, Hannover - designed topic, call for papers and programme - secured funding from the DFG and GAP (see below) - webpage: DataIntensiveScience.wordpress.com

Teaching Spring- Philosophy of Information.

Summer - core topics in the philosophy of information, issues related to the use of data and information 2017 in the sciences and ethical challenges posed by information technologies - designed and taught - advanced undergraduate/graduate level seminar - syllabus available here

Funding Awarded September Conference travel grant: PSA2018.

2018 - awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) - awarded for the PSA2018, the 26th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association - approximately e1,600

April-June Funding for event organisation: Ninth Workshop on the Philosophy of Infor2018 mation.

- Contact Forum funding, awarded by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts (KVAB), approximately e900 - additional funding from the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (CLPS), approximately e200

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July- Funding for event organisation: Making Sense of Data in the Sciences.

September - DFG international scientific events funding, awarded by the German Research Foundation 2017 (DFG), approximately e9,200 - GAP catering and advertisement funding, awarded by the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP, approximately e400

June 2017 Conference travel grant: ISHPSSB2017.

- awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) - awarded for the 2017 Meeting of the International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), 16-21 July 2017, SĂŁo Paulo - approximately e1,500

April 2017 Graduate student travel bursary: BSPS2017.

- awarded by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS) - awarded for the 2017 BSPS Conference in Edinburgh - withdrew to take the DAAD grant (see above)

Academic Services Referee.

Big Data & Society (2016, 2017), Philosophy of Science (2018), Filozofia nauki (2018), THEORIA (2018), Current Bioinformatics (2018).

Deputy Editor.

Italian Journal of Analytic Philosophy - Junior : peer-review editor; contributor for book reviews, conference reports, interviews and editorial letters.

References Phyllis Illari.

University College London personal webpage phyllis.illari@ucl.ac.uk

Sabina Leonelli.

University of Exeter personal webpage s.leonelli@exeter.ac.uk

Thomas Reydon.

Leibniz Universität Hannover personal webpage reydon@ww.uni-hannover.de

Languages Italian Native English Fluent German Intermediate

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